New "Skyline" Movie based off Steven Hawking's ET predictions. Is it a warning?

I am open to the ideas of Extra Terrestrials and have posted on many sighting threads in my days, enough to be annoyed by the skeptics that plague
their post-boards. Just caught this trailer on TV for this new movie, and it looks like things dont end to well for the humans.

What caught my attention was, in the movies plot, NASA sends a message into space with hopes of it being intercepted by any ET's out there. Now, I
read/posted on a thread that described a NASA message sent towards teh Gliese Star system....just wondering what you guys think. Is Hollywood telling
us something?

(BTW: Although posts containing "Project Blue Beam" annoy me, i am intrigued if anyone can give credible evidence as to how/why they are doing
it)

Originally posted by Plan2exist18
I am open to the ideas of Extra Terrestrials and have posted on many sighting threads in my days, enough to be annoyed by the skeptics that plague
their post-boards. Just caught this trailer on TV for this new movie, and it looks like things dont end to well for the humans.

What caught my attention was, in the movies plot, NASA sends a message into space with hopes of it being intercepted by any ET's out there. Now, I
read/posted on a thread that described a NASA message sent towards teh Gliese Star system....just wondering what you guys think. Is Hollywood telling
us something?

(BTW: Although posts containing "Project Blue Beam" annoy me, i am intrigued if anyone can give credible evidence as to how/why they are doing
it)

Only that this topic is entertaining and we will pay to see it. There will be mentally ill people who see it as fact as they have other fiction works.
Only their mental health professionals can deal with that.

If you are serious about this topic, beware the insane! They will lead you astray. Lord knows there are enough of them and they don't seem to want to
take their med's. You won't find evidence or answers in fiction movies. You will only find those things with long hours of searching and reading.
Rather than the Internet making it easier, it has instead buried anything useful in a pile of crap. Don't add to that crap.

Make of it what you will. There is the one theory that the Fermi Paradox = one super aggressive alien species sterilising the Universe of all emerging
intelligences except themselves. Kind of survival of the fittest on a Universal scale.

I'd like to say that was plausible, but having seen them close up, (yes, they are already here!), I can tell you that they are most likely benign.
;-)

Yes. A warning to us the ET fantasy has gone too far.
The problem with Cha ching land (CCL) is that it has many faces and every one
is in the form of no disclosure contracts and the like and offer fantasy.
News is supposed to stick to the facts with no opinions.
Some problems exist when the facts are not right or not told.
Thus for most of what happens there is no news.
Better not say is the motto.
Odd that wikileaks has so much paperwork to disclose.
The government must employ a lot of writers.
I wonder if was all was computer ready for net posting.

New "Skyline" Movie based off Steven Hawking's ET predictions. Is it a warning?

Nope.........why would it be?........It's a film made by Hollywood, they've been doing it for years now

It's just entertainment!

Yea, Hollywood hugs close to the zeitgeist of the moment. It's the business of processing of collective sentiment through media-monitoring.

I like to think that to get a better view of these changes, one might have to pan back to get a larger view of the 'entertainment in question'
(sentient-alien-based science fiction as social commentary/possible cultural conditioning), as it's changed over the years:

1. War of the Worlds/The Day the Earth Stood Still --> 2. Close Encounters --> 3. E.T. --> 4. Independence Day --> 5. War of the Worlds/The Day the
Earth Stood Still (remakes) --> Skyline

...as possibly parallel to the following sweeping cultural shifts:

1. The red scare --> 2. Baby Boomers: post '60s, post Vietnam - tired, but optimistic --> 3. Baby-boomer-optimism waning in middle-age, challenged by
growing fears of a faceless, martial and impersonal government --> 4. Gulf War. 'American influence' challenged, affirmed by The Fresh Prince of Bel
Air and Bill Clinton, as portrayed by Bill Pullman --> 5. post-9/11 nihilism: fear of the alien and and unknown, death, and loss of humanity, and loss
of identity, become marketable again, in the same way they were before, in 'step 1. The red scare'.

Note the same director that made "Close Encounters" and "E.T." also made the remake of "War of the Worlds": Stephen Spielberg.

He hugs close to the zeitgeist (as do most mainstream directors). Stephen Hawking's well-stated statements are merely along for the ride.

edit on 24-10-2010 by autobono because: clarified and classified

edit on 24-10-2010 by autobono because: clarified and
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edit on 24-10-2010 by autobono because: To clarify and classify. Scramble in the summer sky. As 99 red balloons go
by.

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